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I like Bran, Janos and Sandor. I think Eddard is inevitably going to be called Edward but most people. Renly makes me think of renal, and that's it. To be honest, a lot of these seem -too- high fantasy to be used on real people, or seem like confused or badly spelled versions of existent names.

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From the girls, I like Arya. Sansa is nice enough, but reminds me of Sampsa. I have heard of Yara as a name in its own right, but it's pretty insubstantial.

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Bare in mind that Game of Thrones is something which is going to age horribly. I'm not a fan (I really don't like the treatment of women as sources of gratuitous nudity and I hate the author of a Song of Blah or whatever, I can't remember his name, the original books... with his pretentious and holier-than-thou attitude and weird beliefs that he's the best and most original thing to happen to fantasy fiction. I read something which was probably from a fan, but might have been from the horse's mouth, basically ragging on Tolkein and his 'simplistic' world-view and black-and-white morals. First off, Bob (we'll call him Bob for convenience unless someone can give me his name) is not the first guy to use ambiguous morality and antiheros and what not, so he and his fans can stop pretending now - it's neither new nor original. And they ragged on Tolkein and since I read the Hobbit when I was six or something, borrowing my mother's book mainly because she told me I'd like it and it had a picture of a scary dwagon on it, and since aforementioned book is the first book I can remember completely and utterly loving to an obsessive degree (outside of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and a book about puppies with finger puppets), J.R.R has a special place in my heart. Yes, that's probably the first thing that fandom. Because I'm petty. And on that note, sorry for ragging on your fandom in this weird aside.

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My point is that books with any inter-generational staying power are pretty rare, and I don't think this series has it - let alone tv shows. I dunno... I just think that in 20 years time, someone called Daenerys is going to end up with a name that's dated horribly, but just made-up enough to be awkwardly identifiable as a name taken from a "2010s-fantasy-revival" fandom.

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And to be honest, 20 years down the line, will you still like the name/series? That's the clincher, really, especially with the very high-fantasy sounding names.

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I do like Janos, though. As long as it's said right. None of this 'Jah-noz' poo.